Lucky White Girl

Brave people, taking risks to do the right thing

I thought this was a very powerful analogy in the immigration debate: from a San Bernadino paper: a column on a new underground railroad?

I'd award them my official Creative Protest Award but I can't find an official press release about their warning system hotline.

2nd LWG Creative Protest Award

Okay I like this one because it's not only creative it's practical.  In Toronto, tired of waiting for the city to install the new bike lanes it approved three years ago, some bike rights activists have taken the responsibility on themselves and starting creating guerrilla bicycle only lanes on Toronto streets.  Congratulations to "The Other Urban Repair Squad" for this creative, useful action to promote public safety!

1st LWG Creative Protest Award

You can talk all you want and if you use clichés and tired old arguments people just don't listen but if you do something original and visual and FUN it really gets the point across a thousand times better.  Images stick with us.  I still remember the sign someone hung in Seattle in '99 during the WTO meetings.  It had two arrows in opposite directions one labeled "democracy" the other "WTO".   More recently I saw a photo of a visualization of the amount of blood spilled in Iraq.  Wow.  Leaves you speechless, eh?

So sometimes I see these ideas, projects, or presentations on social/economic/global justice issues that strike me as so fresh, so invigorating that they bring the abstractness of numbers and figures to a whole new level of comprehension. I want to award them something.  I don't have much to give but this blog's recognition.  So here's it is, the first installment of LWGs Creative Protest Award.  The inaugural award goes to Greenpeace for building a replica of Noah's Ark to illustrate the urgency of global warming.  Yay for Greenpeace!  Yay for creative protest spurring us to action!  A picture is worth a thousand million words.